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The Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches, most commonly referred to by the short form Union of Utrecht (UU), is a federation of Old Catholic Churches, nationally organized from schisms which rejected Roman Catholic doctrines of the First Vatican Council in 1870; its member churches are not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. [2]
utrechter-union.org. Utrecht, NL: Utrechter Union der Altkatholischen Kirchen. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22; Smit, Peter-Ben (2011). Old Catholic and Philippine independent ecclesiologies in history: the catholic church in every place. Brill's Series in Church History. Vol. 52.
Pages in category "Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands (Dutch: Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland), sometimes Jansenist Church of Holland, [1] is an Old Catholic jurisdiction originating from the Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580). The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands is the mother church of the Old Catholic Union of Utrecht.
This denomination is part of the Union of Utrecht. [2] It is a member of the World Council of Churches and the Polish Ecumenical Council . [ 3 ] It is not affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church , and as of 2022, has 18,140 members.
The Old Catholic Church in Sweden has been the Swedish member church of the Union of Utrecht since 1976. [citation needed] It is in full communion with the Anglican Communion (so that members of both communions are permitted to receive the sacraments in one another's churches) and, as of 2016, the national church, the Church of Sweden.
The Old Catholic Church of Croatia or Croatian Old Catholic Church (Croatian: Hrvatska starokatolička crkva) consists of the Croatian parishes in full communion with the Union of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Churches. Since 2018, it is administered by Bishop Maria Kubin. [2] The Croatian Old Catholic Church as of 2017 has about 1,000 believers. [3]
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. [1] Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Union of Utrecht, the Lutheran World Federation, the Anglican Communion, the Mennonite churches, the ...